Maya's* nightmare began three years ago, during a routine play session with her three-year-old daughter, Lily*. Maya was planning a weekend outing with the family, and had asked her little girl if she preferred the zoo or the aquarium. Lily chose neither, asking for ice cream instead.
When Maya refused her request, Lily threw a tantrum and cried, saying that Papa and Ms June*, her preschool teacher, always bought her ice cream.
While Maya was thrown off by this revelation, that her husband and Ms June seemed to be in regular contact without her knowledge, she shrugged it off, choosing to console her child instead.
About two weeks later, Lily came home from school with an ice cream stain on her uniform. When asked about it, her husband, John* said he had given her ice cream for behaving well in school. Maya accepted this, though she felt that something was off. "Call it a woman's intuition - a part of me knew something was up, but another part of me didn't want to rock the boat," she says.
However, her curiosity got the better of her one day, and she decided to ask her daughter what she thought of Ms June. Lily said she was her favourite teacher, as she was always taking her out to eat and giving her treats. Maya was alarmed to hear this - how was a teacher permitted to take a pupil out without a parent's permission, and during school hours? She dug deeper, and wished that she had not.
According to Lily, Ms June and Papa had been spending time together with her after school at a nearby cafe. They even went to the zoo once, and Maya realised this was when she was staying over at her parents' house to care for her sick mother. Shocked, Maya felt sick to her stomach that her husband was blatantly cheating on her, and in front of their child.
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